Quotes About Consensus

When you use film, you use accidents, but there aren't any accidents with digital photography. I don't mind that it's easy. But I do mind that there is a sort of consensus with the camera and the subject and the light, and you look at something, and you photograph it, and you get what you see.

To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, you'd think the most successful Supreme Court justices had been warm, collegial consensus-builders. But history tells a different story.

There is universal consensus among experts that the earth's atmosphere is heating up - and that we are responsible for it by putting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We also know that the consequences of global warming are catastrophic. But how do we make sure that all countries reduce greenhouse gases?

But for Republicans and conservatives, it's both willfully ignorant and negligent not to acknowledge that there is in fact a scientific consensus that the Earth is warming and man is responsible for much of it.

To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.

There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.

The team always sold programs for a buck at the games. Inside were the stats on each Rattler. There was also a roster of the visiting team, but they didn't include their stats. I guess the general consensus was: Who cares? They're not our guys. Ragland was pretty loyal to its team.

And more than the quality of its institutions, what distinguishes a developed country from a developing one is the degree of consensus in its politics, and thus its ability to take actions to secure a better future despite short-term pain.

decision by consensus is inherently conservative.

Authority, of course, is primarily service, but service of a very particular kind; it involves listening, consulting, and reaching consensus if possible, but also, when necessary, correcting, admonishing, rebuking, and making tough decisions even when there isn't consensus.

Just because everyone believes something to be true, doesn't make it truth

We are a big-tent party, but we have to come together as a caucus and say 'These are the things we can agree on' and push forward.

I'm going to do what is best for the caucus.

Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.

In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.

Freedom consists of conforming to the will of the majority.

Perhaps I just feel safer with the history that's been more or less agreed upon.

I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.